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Posted to commits@trafficcontrol.apache.org by mi...@apache.org on 2018/09/26 13:51:37 UTC
[trafficcontrol] 20/46: Added a description of the difference
between STEERING and CLIENT_STEERING
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commit 5cbb660a24c7bc7f8fcf0f429d7b6ebde069cf46
Author: ocket8888 <oc...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Sep 13 14:12:37 2018 -0600
Added a description of the difference between STEERING and CLIENT_STEERING
---
docs/source/admin/traffic_router.rst | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/source/admin/traffic_router.rst b/docs/source/admin/traffic_router.rst
index 2ff01d8..8f7d173 100644
--- a/docs/source/admin/traffic_router.rst
+++ b/docs/source/admin/traffic_router.rst
@@ -437,8 +437,6 @@ A Steering Delivery Service is a Delivery Service that is used to route a client
Special regular expressions - referred to as 'filters' - can also be configured for target Delivery Services to pin traffic to a specific Delivery Service. For example, if a filter called ``.*/news/.*`` for a target called 'target-ds-1' is created, any requests to Traffic Router with 'news' in them will be routed to 'target-ds-1'. This will happen regardless of the configured weights.
-A client can bypass the steering functionality by providing the ``X-TC-Steering-Option`` HTTP header with a value of the ``xml_id`` of the target Delivery Service to which they desire to be routed. When Traffic Router receives this header it will route to the requested target Delivery Service regardless of weight configuration.
-
Some other points of interest:
- Steering is currently only available for HTTP Delivery Services that are a part of the same CDN.
@@ -453,6 +451,11 @@ A couple simple use-cases for Steering are:
- Load balancing between Delivery Services.
+The Difference Between STEERING and CLIENT_STEERING
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+The only difference between the STEERING and CLIENT_STEERING Delivery Service Types is that CLIENT_STEERING explicitly allows a client to bypass Steering by choosing a destination Delivery Service. A client can accomplish this by providing the ``X-TC-Steering-Option`` HTTP header with a value of the ``xml_id`` of the target Delivery Service to which they desire to be routed. When Traffic Router receives this header it will route to the requested target Delivery Service regardless of weig [...]
+
Configuration
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